During development we transition from coregulation (where regulatory processes are
shared between child and caregiver) to self‐regulation. Most early coregulatory interactions …

Communicative signals such as eye contact increase infants' brain activation to visual stimuli
and promote joint attention. Our study assessed whether communicative signals during joint …

Environments are dynamic and complex. Some children experience more predictable early
life environments than others. Here, we consider how moment-by-moment complexity and …

We know little about the mechanisms through which leader–follower dynamics during
dyadic play shape infants' language acquisition. We hypothesized that infants' decisions to …

Parental reading to young children is well-established as being positively associated with
child cognitive development, particularly their language development. Research indicates …

Parent-child interactions shape children's cognitive outcomes such that caregivers can
guide attention and facilitate learning opportunities. These interactions provide infants and …

The capacity to pay attention underpins all subsequent cognitive development. However, we
understand little about how attention control is instantiated in the developing brain in real …

Decades of research on joint attention, coordinated joint engagement, and social
contingency identify caregiver-child interaction in infancy as a foundation for language …

Modern technology allows for simultaneous neuroimaging from interacting caregiver-child
dyads. Whereas most analyses that examine the coordination between brain regions within …

Previous researches have revealed that initiators preferentially re-orient their attention
towards responders with whom they have established joint attention (JA). However, it …